/vr/ - Retro Games

Probably my favorite of their older games (though I love the series in general). Klonoa isn't bad at all either.

On that note, anyone find it a little funny that they only bothered to ever bring Legend of Valkyrie over a single time, and only as part of one of their collections on the Playstation? Given how many collections they've done for various systems over the years, I'm a bit surprised they didn't include it in any others.

>>1514946
Yes, it did. It came to the US as Tales of Destiny II (even with it having next to nothing to do with the original Tales of Destiny outside of cameos; likely a marketing ploy or copyright issues), while a port of the original Playstation version came to Europe on the PSP as Tales of Eternia.

The only /vr/ Tales games to not officially make it over were both versions of Tales of Phantasia, which have been fan translated once on the SNES (the liberty taking DeJap translation), and twice on the Playstation (Absolute Zero and Phantasian Productions).

Again, Eternia (and Destiny as well) are pretty damn expensive in the US, averaging about $90 complete out where I live. You'd likely be better off emulating it unless you're a big fan of the series already, or have a desire to do multiplayer co-op (which is a lot of fun aside from some co-op camera issues; remedied by both players played as the close ranged characters Reid and Farah respectively, as you can more easily keep both players on screen). There's also an undub patch for either the Playstation original or PSP port, not sure which. I wouldn't exactly call the English dub great (thankfully apart from a few games, the dubs in the series have generally improved since then), but I'm pretty tolerant of it given the game's age and the fact it's not ear bleedingly bad. Actually kind of charming when you get used to it.

>>1464739
I actually picked up a copy of my own a year or two back. Between the game holding up pretty damn well, loving the series in general, it being a lot of fun, and having co-op, I don't regret dropping the money on it. Helps it was complete and it great shape too.

Probably would be more available if Namco had given it decent marketing (a trend they would keep for most of the series, barring Symphonia which had its marketing done by Nintendo).